Im a firm believer of the Companions, and I have faith in the judgement of the companions, because they were the ones close to the Prophet pbuh.
But was Yazid really the “evil” person that sources make him out to be?
From my childhood, all my ustaads have told me the story of karbala, and always said that Yazid allegedly killed Husayn r.a.'s band of men. But from where does this source arrive?
I really want to investigate this, and I came here to get some information.
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Kinda unrelated but Yazid was also a distant cousin of Imam Husein and Hasan from what I know. Not many people know that. I believe that the great great grandfathers were siblings I have to dig up the book which had that info.
their families meet long back at ummayyah and hashim, uncle and nephew, i guess....
and from their enemity emerged banu umayyah and banu hashim....
but calling them cousins after so many generations is a bit crude i think....
hussain - ali - abu talib - abdul mutalib - hashim
yazid - muaweyah - abu sufyan - harb - umayyah - abd-us-shams
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use kinsman,. tribesman or whatever suits your fancy. but that would indicate less of a connection than is present.
it depends on your definition of cousins, there are terms such as second third and even fourth cousins, and thus is not a crude term. I would have used 3rd or fourth cousin had I know exacrly how far removed they were, but since I did not quite know thatI used the generic term cousins, which to desis means phuppo ka baita type of thing which its not
it is also narrated that abu sufyan resembled the prophet quite a bit as well.
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armughal and u do realie that the power struggle between teh two families was preset since before the message of islam? in some ways I wonder if it was the same family rivalry that contiuned and ended in the tragic events at karbala rather than the religious conspiracy people sometimes show it to be.
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there were two types of Quresh tho, "inner Quraish" who were the rulers of the meccan tribes, and masters of the trade route, (wealthy merchants)
and the "outer Quraish" who were cast out byt th einner quraish and lived in poverty on the outskirts of mecca.
Interesting info, on yazid..
from what i know its wrong to curse him, because you cannot curse a believer when there isn't any evidence.
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so, the prisons of his court in syria where there are remnants of imam hussain's relatives being imprisoned including his daughter's grave, was that ibn e ziyad too?
